Jeremiah

Allen offers excellent notes on text-critical and grammatical issues, as well as good observations about literary matters. He identifies a trajectory of grace in which the proclamations of doom can be understood within the context of promises for a renewed future. “Allen is an excellent scholar,” Longman notes, “and does a great job articulating the message of Jeremiah in its original context. He helpfully puts his focus on the final form of the book, but pays little attention to the book from a New Testament perspective.” [Full Review]

For basic textual, critical and exegetical issues, a recent resource.

My third choice reading on Jeremiah. It's not as good as Lundbom and Fischer (German), but it is sound and better than House (who wrote the preceding volume in OTL). It's exegesis is good (better than Thompson), but it's a bit lacking-in-thoroughness. It's certainly a readable commentary, but not the best one.